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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years. The Alaska Board of Fisheries and North Pacific Fishery Management Council announced last week that the population of snow

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN With the California city of Stockton on edge following a series of late-night shootings by an unknown assailant, police officials believe another killing was prevented with the arrest of a suspect this weekend. Wesley Brownlee, 43, of Stockton, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Saturday, clad in dark clothing with

By Andy Rose and Christina Maxouris, CNN Authorities in California on Saturday arrested a man in connection with a series of killings that claimed the lives of six people. The suspect, Wesley Brownlee, 43, was being followed by a police surveillance team who determined around 2 a.m. on Saturday he was “out hunting” and “on

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Nine lions that were rescued from Ukraine have arrived safely at their new home in Colorado. The big cats were “urgently relocated” from Bio Park Zoo in Odessa, Ukraine, when the Russian invasion first began, according to a news release from The Wild Animal Sanctuary. A convoy transported the lions from

By Laura Ly, CNN A former Louisville Metro Police Department detective is possibly facing years in federal prison when he is sentenced next week for using his law enforcement access to a database, obtaining information about women, and stealing sexually explicit photos and videos from them. Bryan Andrew Wilson, 36, is due to be sentenced

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Eclipse, the dog who became famous in Seattle and worldwide for her solo bus rides to the dog park, has died, according to her owner. The black labrador-bull mastiff mix became well-known in Seattle after she learned to take the bus to the dog park even without her owner. She died

By Jason Hanna and Raja Razek, CNN The bodies of four males were found Friday in a river outside an Oklahoma city where authorities have been searching for four missing men — though it wasn’t clear if the remains are those of the missing, police said. Friday’s discovery outside the city of Okmulgee came as

By AJ Willingham, CNN Susan G. Komen is one of the largest, most recognized breast cancer organizations in the world. Since its founding in 1982, the nonprofit has invested more than $1 billion in cancer research, and more than $2 billion in patient outreach, according to financial documents. The foundation’s Race for the Cure is

By Emma Tucker, CNN After Baltimore prosecutors decided this week to drop all charges against Adnan Syed, the man who spent more than two decades behind bars for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a key question remains: Who will be held accountable for Lee’s death? Syed, who was 17 at the

By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Darnella Frazier never would have recorded the video of George Floyd’s death, which helped convict Derek Chauvin, had she said no to her cousin’s request to walk to the store. Her cousin, 9-year-old Judeah Reynolds, wanted to buy candy but was too young to walk alone. Reynolds was persistent, and Frazier

By Melissa Alonso and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe regarding a police officer shooting and killing a teenager earlier this month in the city of Gulfport, police said, as attorneys for the teen’s family call for video footage of the incident to be released. Law enforcement officers responded

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A single drop of blood has led to the arrest of a suspect in the unsolved 1989 murders of Catherine and George Peacock in Danby, Vermont, police say. George, 76, and Catherine, 73, were killed in their residence in September 1989, according to the Vermont State Police website. The couple had

By Aya Elamroussi, Ryan Young and Devon M. Sayers, CNN A 15-year-old will be charged as an adult for allegedly carrying out a mass shooting that left five people dead Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, prosecutors said, as calls to curb gun violence are renewed once again in the US. The suspect, identified by police

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Three boaters clung to a makeshift raft of ice chests and fended off shark attacks and jellyfish stings in the waters near Empire, Louisiana, until they were rescued 28 hours later, all thanks to a miraculous text message. The three longtime friends set out on October 8 to fish red snapper

By Zoe Sottile, CNN You attract more bees with honey — and more bears with doughnuts, apparently. A New York hunter has been ticketed after he allegedly used doughnuts in an attempt to lure bears, according to a new release from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Police at the department hiked many miles for

By Andi Babineau, Melissa Alonso and Sara Turnbull, CNN An iHeartMedia radio executive is out of a job after a video of him repeatedly using racial slurs surfaced, according to a spokesperson for the company. iHeartMedia-Atlanta’s president Drew Lauter is “no longer with the company,” Meg Stevens, a senior vice president of programming at the

By Raja Razek, CNN An Indiana teacher with an alleged “kill list” was in custody Friday after a student told a counselor the teacher made comments about killing herself, students and staff, the East Chicago Police Department said. Officers responded to a report of a threat at St. Stanislaus Catholic Elementary School about 5 p.m.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN In the last six months, Virginia Evans said sometimes her toilets wouldn’t flush or the water coming out the faucets at her Jackson, Mississippi home, was brown and had low pressure. The water crisis, Evans said, has been so troubling that she remains afraid to drink or cook with it